Check Out Images From Kanye West's New Glow in the Dark Tour Book

New tome features candid shots and an interview with Spike Jonze.

Let's try to ignore Kanye West's current woes for a moment and think back to a time when he was triumphantly traveling around the world with his sci-fi-themed Glow in the Dark tour. The 2008 show had tons of blinding lights, a vaguely pornographic alien, and Kanye rampaging like the last man on Mars. It was incredible.

Now, we're going to get a really nice belated program in the form of the 288-page book Kanye West: Glow in the Dark, featuring photos by Nabil Elderkin (director of Kanye's "Paranoid" and "Welcome to Heartbreak" videos) and designed by the graphic team Base. Along with on stage and behind-the-scenes shots, the book includes conceptual sketches by West, costume designs, and stage models. The book comes with an audio CD featuring the previously unreleased live instrumentals for "Hey Mama", "Touch the Sky", "Jesus Walks", and "I Wonder", as well as an interview with tour collaborator Spike Jonze. It's due out this month via Rizzoli.

Click on to see a few choice pics from the book, including one of Kanye apparently being eaten by an overgrown lizard: